My friend has been in hospital for 6 weeks now. She's a single parent with 3 children aged 2, 6 and 8. A group of her friends including me have been looking after the children. Mainly the youngest has been with one person and the older 2 have moved about a bit - a week or two in each place. We take them to school, organis`e holiday activities etc. basically treat them as we would our own
Initially we organised all of this thinking it would be short term but their mum is still in hospital and it looks like it could be another 6-8 weeks before she comes out.
We are beginning to think the children all need to be together and stay in one place. Is foster care an option and if so what do we need to do to help their mum organise it (she's on heavy duty painkillers or sedated a lot of the time). Also will the children be together and how hard will it be to get them home at the end of it all? Will they be able to carry on at same school?
Sorry for so many questions. We just want the best for these lovely children and their mum.
Their dad is worse than useless by the way - don't want to go into details here
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